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Recycle Bin Items

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by moadibe

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Where are the items that are sent to the recycle Bin stored. Can they be accessed or restored from the DOS prompt?

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by jdfcomputer

They are stored in a hidden folder.

c:\recycled

Just move the items out of the folder to retrieve them.

You will have to go back into windows and delete something and empty the recycle bin to reset the index file of deleted items.

by parbo

The items stored in the Recycle Bin cannot be restored from DOS. You would need a third party utility that has DOS support for this, something like the undelete utility in DOS 6.2x.

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